KODI is an award winning media center application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox. The ultimate hub for all your media, KODI is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community. Try it now!

Media Management
KODI supports viewing and playing a vast library of audio, video and image formats. KODI has a sophisticated library management system that allows you to organize all your media to give you quick and immediate access.

Fluid Interface
KODI provides a user friendly interface that's intuitive, very flexible, and easy to use. The interface is completely customizable through user-created or downloadable skins.

Plug-ins and Extensibility
KODI has a built-in Python interpreter that allows users and developers to write their own scripts and plugins that run inside KODI using it's own widgets and controls. It also has a built-in web server that allows it to be controlled remotely.

Visualisations
KODI's audio player supports many visualisations including ProjectM and Goom. In addition, it allows easy development of visualisations using a simple API.

* Added unified Addon framework that make it easy to distribute addons to XBMC (based on C-Pluff)* Addon Browser GUI that will allow for an easy way to find, install, and manage third-party addons* Added support for update notifications and options for manual or automatic updates of addons* Added Team XBMC's official Addons Repository for open source addons as the default Addon Repo* Added GUI option to install additional third-party Addons Repos from ZIP files (with addon.xml)* Added GUI option to install third-party addons from ZIP files without it being in an Addon Repo* Added support for scrapers (Web Scraper Metadata Aggregators) to the Addons API* Added support for skins extension point to the Addons API* Added support for visualizations extension point to the Addons API* Added support for screensavers extension point to the Addons API* Added support for python based plugins extension point to the Addons API* Added support for python based scripts extension point to the Addons API* Added support for web interfaces extension point to the Addons API* Added new default web interface as an addon to remote control XBMC via any web browser* Removed builtin SHOUTcast.com directory support and moved it to the official addons repo* Removed builtin visualizations and moved them to the official addons repo* Removed builtin screensavers and moved them to the official addons repo* Removed all Adult ('XXX' classified) scrapers into a new third-party managed addons repository

# GUI Engine:

* Improved XBMC's GUI Engine / Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful* Added option to choose "default select action" of the showing info screen for videos* Added FanArt support for Addons* Added initial gesture support to XBMC's GUI Engine (adding touch interface API support to libgui)* Added initial support for Windows Touch API (Windows 7 touch features and functions)* Added ability for Karaoke player to optionally show the next song that will be played* Added video information flagging for trailers* Improved mouse support, added better exclusive control support for dragging of sliders/scroll bars* Improved mouse click handling and added the possibility of long verses short clicks detection* Updated translations for most languages (thanks to all community members who contributed!)* Renamed "Plugins" in the Addons UI to "Media Sources" as that is what they are now* Removed AAC, MP1, MP2, and MP3 passthrough options settings from the GUI* Removed all Xbox only strings from the language files since the Xbox platform is no longer supported

* Added FanArt image cache height-value size option to advancedsettings.xml (defaults to 480)* Added initial support for MySQL as abstracted database backend for video and music libraries* Added improved portability of SQL statements used in the video and music libraries* Added ability to sort TV Shows folders by the date of the last recorded episode* Added support for Movie Sets (option to group movie collections into sets for customized sorting)* Added support to allow scrapers to use a normal settings.xml* Improved performance for SQL database queries ( expert help is always wanted in this area!)* Improved video scanner engine* Improved metadata scraper engine

* Confluence: Addon Browser specific window and icon to get to it in the settings GUI* Confluence: Added border to the Addon icons in media info view for a uniformed look* Confluence: Added FanArt support for the Addon Browser* Confluence: Added buttons in the OSD's for Lyrics and Subtitle Addons* Confluence: Added browsing for subtitles in full screen video overlay* Confluence: Added browsing for lyrics in full screen video overlay* Confluence: Added "Recently Added" Movies and TV Shows script view in the home menu* Confluence: Improved file and folder path name reading for media flagging* Confluence: Removed script window completely (turns out you don't need one now)